Software (Evaluation and functionality)

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Main Window:

Security, Online Safety, Performance, and More Norton are the four key protection categories featured in Symantec Norton Antivirus Basic's bright, roomy main window (Iwuozor, J. 2022).

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Scan Choices

Aside from the standard quick, full, and custom antivirus scans, you may also run the aggressive Norton Power Eraser, scan files using Norton Insight to identify known safe files, or run a diagnostic report to aid with troubleshooting (Iwuozor, J. 2022).

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Norton insight Scan

Norton Insight compares all of your PC's programmes to Symantec's massive database of known and trusted programmes, revealing the trust rating, prevalence (among Norton users), and resource utilisation for each. Subsequent antivirus scans may bypass files that have been tagged as trustworthy (Iwuozor, J. 2022).

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Dangerous page blocked

When tested with freshly revealed malware-hosting URLs, Norton prevented around one-third of them at the URL level, ensuring that the browser never accessed the harmful site (Iwuozor, J. 2022).

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Blocked phishing sites

Norton's browser protection also steered the browser away from phishing websites. However, it scored very poorly in the anti phishing test, a surprising result given that it used to ace this test (Iwuozor, J. 2022).

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Scam insights

The Scam Insight feature caught some fraudulent pages based on characteristics including the site's age and the number of Norton users who had encountered it (Iwuozor, J. 2022)

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Antispam settings

Among this product's many bonus features is a local antispam component that filters out spam from POP3 email accounts and integrates with Microsoft Outlook(Iwuozor, J. 2022).

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Performance tools

In addition to its many security-related components, Norton Antivirus Basic offers a useful collection of tools to enhance system performance. (Iwuozor, J. 2022)

Reference:

PCMag, U. K. (2018) Symantec Norton AntiVirus Basic, PCMag UK. Available at: https://uk.pcmag.com/antivirus/117949/symantec-norton-antivirus-basic (Accessed: 2 June 2023).

Antivirus (no date) Norton.com. Available at: https://uk.norton.com/antivirus (Accessed: 2 June 2023).

Iwuozor, J. (2022) Norton Antivirus review 2023: Pricing, pros & cons, Forbes Advisor. Available at: https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/software/norton-antivirus-review/ (Accessed: 2 June 2023).